One of the more effective of director Vittorio De Sica's later films, this epic romantic melodrama, described by one contemporary critic as 'gloriously batty' gives Sophia Loren full rein for some unrestrained emotional acting in a story positively soaked in one of Henry Mancini's lushest scores. The Technicolor photography of Giuseppe Rotunno and David Vinitsi is truly ravishing, helping more than anything else to approach realisation of the director's obvious ambition: to make a classic love story.


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